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675 dive sites matching “turtle”Across Australia
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Cairns

Boulders (Flynn Reef)

Flynn's current wall, with active fish life on the face and giant clams on the shallow reef top.

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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East Arnhem Land & Gove

Bremer Island

Gove's closest island dive: colourful fringing coral in the shallows and sponge- and fan-filled caves deeper down, with turtles…

Boat (day trip)Up to 40 m
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Cairns

Briggs Reef

A lightly dived reef with large plate corals and calm inside moorings, used mainly by a snorkel operator.

Boat (day trip)Up to 28 m
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Mission Beach & Cassowary Coast

Brook Islands

Some of the largest and oldest coral formations recorded on the reef, beside a huge pied imperial-pigeon colony.

BoatUp to 12 m
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Brisbane & Moreton Bay

Bulwer Wrecks

Three 1880s-1900-built steamers scuttled in 1933-35 as a breakwater, now an easy shallow snorkel off Bulwer beach.

Shore or BoatUp to 6 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

Bundegi Reef

The closest reef to Exmouth town, in a sanctuary zone with a kayak trail and boulder corals; turtles and dugong graze the…

Shore or BoatUp to 10 m
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Whitsundays & Bowen

Butterfly Bay (Hook Island)

Sheltered bareboat anchorage with coral outcrops and shallow walls along its edges – an easy dive from an overnight yacht.

Boat (day trip)Up to 12 m
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Heron Island & Capricorn Group

Bylund's Pass (Heron Island)

A hard-coral slope right outside the harbour where turtles feed in the current and great barracuda hang in the blue.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Cocos (Keeling) Islands

Cable Bommie

Two large winches and lengths of cable believed to date from the Direction Island cable station, now overgrown with coral and…

Boat (day trip)Up to 25 m
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Lady Musgrave & Bunker Group

Campgrounds (Lady Musgrave)

An untouched outer-reef wall drift past isolated coral formations, with pelagics brought in by the current.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Norfolk Island

Cascade Pier

Easy shore dive over sand, rock outcrops and coral heads with visibility often over 40 m, sheltered in south-easterlies.

ShoreUp to 15 m
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Whitsundays & Bowen

Cateran Bay (Border Island)

Beautiful shallow plate-coral gardens in a sheltered bay on the outer edge of the Whitsunday group.

Boat (day trip)Up to 12 m
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Coral Sea

Cathedral (Holmes Reef)

A deep Holmes Reef wall where a golden anthias species was first recorded in Australia, with sharks, tuna and potato cod.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 40 m
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Brisbane & Moreton Bay

Cementco Wreck

An inverted ex-Army support ship and coral barge north-east of Flinders Reef, with crayfish-lined interiors and big groupers.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Ningaloo – Exmouth

Central Station

Mantas queuing at a west-side cleaning station.

Boat (day trip)Up to 15 m
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Brisbane & Moreton Bay

Cherubs Cave

A 20 x 15 m cave with six exits, surrounded by gullies where grey nurse sharks gather in winter.

Boat (day trip)Up to 30 m
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Capricorn Coast & Keppel Islands

Clam Bay (Great Keppel Island)

A quiet southern bay with a broad reef flat and coral trout breeding ground, at its best when northerlies blow out the western…

Shore or BoatUp to 5 m
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Rowley Shoals

Clerke Aquarium

A calm bommie and staghorn garden inside Clerke.

Boat (multi-day/liveaboard)Up to 12 m
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Cairns

Clipper & Super Cat (Saxon Reef)

A reliable sweetlips school, a friendly resident turtle and occasional winter dolphins on Saxon's wall and bommies.

Boat (day trip)Up to 20 m
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Cairns

Club 10 (Milln Reef)

Acres of shallow coral and two coral-draped bommies – ideal for snorkellers and relaxed divers.

Boat (day trip)Up to 18 m
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Bundaberg & Agnes Water

Cochrane Artificial Reef

Bundaberg's best boat dive: sunken barges, a dredge, light ships and three aircraft (two Mohawks and a King Air) in 15-18 m, home…

BoatUp to 20 m
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Tweed & Byron Bay

Cook Island – Northern Ledge

Turtle-rich aquatic reserve minutes from Tweed Heads/Coolangatta with multiple moorings so it can be dived in almost any swell;…

BoatUp to 22 m
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Ningaloo – Coral Bay

Coral Bay Manta Ray Swim (Bateman Bay)

Year-round snorkelling with WA's largest manta population, located by spotter plane.

Boat (day trip)Depth not recorded
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Sunshine Coast

Coral Gardens (Gneerings)

The Gneerings' shallow coral gardens in 10-15 m – the classic easy reef dive of the Sunshine Coast.

BoatUp to 15 m